Google Maps have announced a new product functionality for its Maps API products – Predictive Travel Time. Known at Google Maps as “PTT”, it will enable users to plan ahead of time to choose the best route and times based on Google’s historical analysis of road-traffic data. What is PTT? PTT is an enhancement to Google Maps API for Work …
Travel by Dragon or Loch Ness Monster
I have just been talking to the guys in the office about travel times and found myself in a surreal situation where I was being very serious, talking about travelling by dragon and the Loch Ness Monster. I never thought that I would ever be discussing these options as means of travel to be displayed on a website, Thanks to …
The Internet in real time
I came across this statistics site earlier today and was blown away. It is just incredible how much data is being used and made every second. In the time it took to create this post (all 7 minutes), the following happened:
The New Digital Age Giveaway
I have a copy of “The New Digital Age” by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen which I would like to pass on. What better way than to give it to one of our readers! So All you need to do is “Like” & “Share” our Facebook page (its quite new). I will pick one random Like and send you the …
Amazon Cloud Drive vs Google Drive vs Dropbox vs SkyDrive vs iCloud
Wow only a year or so ago Clouds were just that, today however we seem to encountering a thunderstorm of Cloud options. As they have come out I have been trialing each one. I cannot remember if I signed up to Microsoft’s LIVE Skydrive as it was formerly know or Dropbox first but those two kind of set the benchmark. …
Google launches Handwriting
Google have made their handwriting service available to UK users, if you open up Google on your iPad/ Android Tablet of smart phone chances are you will now also see the “Try Handwriting” feature that our friends over the pond have had since July… You can view more on the official Google Handwrite page – http://www.google.co.uk/insidesearch/features/search/handwritinginput/mobile.html To get started you …
How to solve the Alan Turing Google Doodle
If you are stuck trying to solve today’s six puzzles in the Google Doodle for Alan Turing then here is a quick simple guide for you. Solution 1: 01011 Change both orange circles from 0 to 1, press the play button. Solution 2: 00011 Make the only available orange circle blank. Solution 3: 00011 Click the orange circle twice! no more. the orange button should have four …
IOS 6 No Google Maps but what Else is new
After what was a rather painful start to installing IOS 6 SDK Beta I have managed to have a quick look at some of the major changes. The first thing I check on the home screen is the “Weather” Luckily its still 23 degrees! In reality its about 10 degrees and pouring with rain but the weather on the phone …
FOPE vs Postini who filters better
Historically we have been massively pro Postni for filtering spam and virus’s and now that we have been actively using Office 365 for just under a year, nothing has changed. Mid 2011 we started switching to the 365 beta’s and testing how the system runs. By early November 2011 we could see clearly that everyone who had come off of …
Google Drive to offer 5GB storage and 100GB in total
Google are getting set to launch their much anticipated Google Drive. We expect to see this in the next few days, as with previous launches though I would expect it to go into Beta mode first with a limited user base. There is however the possibility that we wont get GDrive, after all it has been rumoured for the last …
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